How should we and our governments prepare for the end of the oil age?

HOw much longer will it remain an affordable resource? IAE reckons 30yrs, others saying the recent rise in petrol is just the beginning, what do you think?How should we and our governments prepare for the end of the oil age?
Global oil production is peaking now. The governments of the world are already taking steps to make people use less oil through the ';use'; of environmental campaigns to reduce emissions of CO2.





Emitting CO2 = burning oil.





It sounds a lot better, when you are a politician, to say: ';Let's cut down on CO2 emissions to save the environment';, than to say: ';We are running out of cheap energy to drive the economy and economic growth and we are now facing a steady and unrelenting decline, to which we have no solution. All we can do is try to conserve what we have left...';How should we and our governments prepare for the end of the oil age?
Thirty years more of affordable oil sounds about right.





Oil is not simply a source of energy to run our cars from. Oil is used by the Petro Chemical Industry to make lots more besides, including dyes, drugs, plastics and so forth.





The most advanced country in terms of finding alternative fuels is Brazil [Brasil]. The Brazilian economy is growing at around 4% pa and continues to look good. Meanwhile, Brazilian scientists are discovering new fuels almost daily from plants growing in the Brazilain rain forests.





And, in case you were think the unthinkable, fuels from the rain forest[s] does not mean hacking down millions of trees to extract juice from their dead trunks.





The alt-fuels they're discovering are coming from plants which will grow rapidly and can be converted into oil which can then be broken down into it's constituent parts etc.





Meanwhile the alt-fuel biz is having a big impact on otherwise derelict farms in Mid-West USA. Lots of farmers are now growing corn for the ethenol biz - things are beginning to look up for these farmers who've not made a decent living for decades. Their new day has dawned.





Meanwhile, back home in ye olde England, we're building more wind-farms and using the tides to get more cheap energy.





Both methods have been used for centuries. There are windmills all over the place in UK, even one at Brixton, right here in old London. We've even got tide-mills going back a couple of hundred years.





So what's new then? Nothing really. Same old stuff being tried out once more really.





Meanwhile back in the old USA c1900s, when Henry Ford introduced the world to his first Model-T Ford, he declared that ';the Model-T will run on ethenol, the fuel of the future. Petroleum gas [gas] is the fuel of the past...';





What happened to Henry Ford's far sighteness?
By buying local.
i think the government has got loads of alternative fuels, but have stopped us from knowing about them,as they wouldnt make any money from them, like they do from oil
I think as long as the oil companies and govenments surpress alternative fuels of which there several because of the profits they make no govenment will say or do anthing untill they see oil ending. like all things to day money will rule the end of the oil age.
oil is non expedable....it's produced naturally by the earth's mechinations....so never...if everyone knew the truth then oil companies would not make so much cash and control so much of the world's economies etc....





Experts estimate that Americans consume more than 25 percent of the world's oil but have control over less than 3 percent of its proven oil supply. This unbalanced pattern of consumption makes it possible for foreign governments, corrupt political leaders, terrorist organizations, and oil conglomerates to hold the economy and the citizens of the United States in a virtual stranglehold. There is no greater proof of this than the direct relationship between skyrocketing gas prices and the explosion of wealth among those who control the world's supply of oil.





In ';Black Gold Stranglehold,'; Jerome Corsi and Craig Smith expose the fraudulent science that has made America so vulnerable: the belief that oil is a fossil fuel and that it is a finite resource. This book reveals the conclusions reached by Dr. Thomas Gold, a professor at Cornell University, in his seminal book ';The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels'; (Copernicus Books, 1998) and accepted by many in the scientific community that oil is not a product of fossils and prehistoric forests but rather the bio-product of a continuing biochemical reaction below the earth's surface that is brought to attainable depths by the centrifugal forces of the earth's rotation.





Jerome Corsi explores the international and domestic politics of oil production and consumption, including the wealth and power of major oil conglomerates, the manipulation of world economies by oil-producing nations and rogue terrorist regimes, and the shortsightedness of those who endorse expensive conservation efforts while rejecting the use of the oil reserves currently controlled by the U.S. government.





As an expert in tangible assets, Craig Smith provides an understanding of the history of America's dangerous dissociation of the dollar with precious鈥攁nd truly scarce鈥攎etals such as gold and the devastation that would be inflicted on the U.S. economy if Middle Eastern countries are able to follow through with current plans to make the euro the standard currency for oil instead of U.S. dollars
Hi Savage nation,


Interesting supposition:must investigate further.


I'm no expert,but I notice that OPEC are threatening to cut oil supplies if the rest of the world EVEN INVESTIGATES alternative sources of energy.


Shows how much THEYcare about the environment!!
I read some opinion the oil peak has been just gone.
Research alternative fuels, which we're already doing, and build more nuclear power plants.
The more preparation a government does, the bigger the mess it creates.





Let the private sector develop the alternatives. Government intervention will only lead to another fat cat, corrupt industry
yea, oil is non reuseable, so it will eventually run out, not everything runs on oil, so we will survive somehow. like on water, bikes, other resources
Well they are finding more ways to make oil. And no one is preparing.